Statistics

Taxonomic Representation

The Global Pollen Project is uses a heirarchical, botanical taxonomy. Of the known plant taxa, our master reference collection covers:

21.96%

or 141 of 642 families.

3.61%

or 617 of 17074 genera.

0.37%

or 1296 of 350692 species.

Contributions

Once a grain has been identified and transferred to the online reference collection all participating users will gain points
both for themselves and their affiliated institutions. The number of points will be determined by the current score placed
on an individual grain as as well as the level of taxonomic identification (i.e. more points will be awarded for a species
level than a genus level identification).